This was reported by Christian Ohm at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632923
The perf command, provided as part of the Linux kernel source, looks for and honors configuration settings in ./config. A local user could obtain elevated privileges by convincing a superuser to run the perf command from a directory the user controls. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110807173438.ga14...@dannf.org
